Historic London Town and Gardens

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London Town was a colonial seaport town founded in 1683 near Annapolis, Maryland. It was once considered as the site for the capital of Maryland, a state of the United States of America. It was as prominent a city in trade as Annapolis and Williamsburg, Virginia. A series of events, including its non-selection as a tobacco inspection station, economic depression, and the Revolutionary War caused it to decline and, by the 19th century, disappear. It is now a public museum and archeology lab and several of its buildings and the grounds have been reconstructed.

London Town's woodland gardens (8 acres) began in the late 1960s as naturalized shade gardens. Today they include an azalea glade with both deciduous and evergreen plantings; a camellia walk with winter blooming camellias; a holly collection; and a winter garden featuring plants of winter interest, with evergreens such as mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia).